I met Amanda
Hemmingsen at the Yogahealer Mexico Retreat in Feb. 2017. I knew
Amanda as a member of Living Ayurveda Course. She’d impressed me
with her unique digestion and expression of Ayurveda. She was
perhaps one of the high ether element types I’d even met, who also
had the gift of being able to put the formless into
words.

Seeing her natural tendency to isolate (as is
common for high ether Vata’s), I felt a strong desire to get to
know Amanda and draw her deeper into the
community.

When Amanda
posted the following on Facebook - about her new job and the
friction and chaos involved in becoming part of a team - I wanted
her on the Dharma & Dollars Show.

“After 20
months of navigating the turbulent waters of organizational chaos,
I think I can finally say that my job has been fully integrated
into the team.

I have learned
so much about personal and organizational chaos and about
developing a kind of creativity that knows when to pick herself up
from defeat, when to set a battle aside, and when to immerse in the
celebration of small victories.

To everyone out
there who has uncomfortable, life-affecting friction with their
job...there is hope and possibility to influence things to the
better, if you take the long view and find a support network that
doesn't tolerate empty venting.” Amanda Hemmingsen

Understanding how to be a
leader up echelon and laterally

Understanding that every
situation we are placed in is an opportunity to shed light on the
inner reality

Understanding the energetics
of a bureaucracy and how to navigate culture and personalities to
get something accomplished

Thinking as an empath:
understanding the difference internally between one's individual
identity and one's group identity.

What is anger before its
anger? Fire. Learning to rechannel the fire rather than alternating
between smothering it and watching it burn out of
control.

"In order to make correct
decisions in your life, you must gain objective self-knowledge.
This is not accomplished by exploring one's own dreams, attitudes,
and opinions. These are useless in self-examination. Instead,
contemplate your effect on the world around you. There you will
find yourself."

What
you’ll get out of tuning in:

Letting go of the millennial
need for quick fixes.

Learning to speak one's truth
and refining the process of effective communication in professional
settings with people who don't think like me

Developing a judicious
understanding of how to tap into one's social support structure.
The energetics of complaining.

How the more we reject
something, the more we end up clinging to it. (i.e., I used to
reject being 'smart' and therefore needed lots of compliments to
prop me up)

3:40
- For the most part, modern jobs no longer consist of laborers
performing their own separate tasks: most jobs today require a
certain degree of teamwork. Therefore, in order to live your bigger
dharma, it is important to learn how to collaborate in a team
setting.

7:00
- For many companies, and especially growing ones, new positions
are added frequently, and won't have an exact onboarding process.
So, it's imperative for the new person to be able to listen to the
group and adapt to it while also contributing fresh
perspective.

10:55
- By actively listening to and learning from the dynamics of an
already established team, you can figure out how to communicate
with each person in order to create leverage for whichever task you
need to accomplish.

13:35
- Learning to let go of your personal attachment to results allows
you and your company to become more efficient: by delegating tasks
instead of doing everything yourself, you can get more done with
less stress.

18:00
- In many business settings, the personal and the professional are
strictly separate. But bridging the gap of the personal and the
professional can actually bring much more clarity to the capacities
of a company based on its team members.

25:00
- When you get a new job, or adopt another role in your current
one, you go through a shift in identity, which is inherently
disorienting. But by aligning with the habits of yogis, even while
being in this inner chaos, you can still be relaxed, accessible,
and connective at the same time.

Favorite Quotes:

"That
needs done, but it's not efficient for me to be the one to do it.
So how can I help find the person who needs to do it?" - Amanda
Hemmingsen

"We
can start to see the threads of our own dharma, and the more we can
articulate that..., the more that becomes an asset to the
organization. If everyone's doing that, we're really not in chaos
at all any more: we're in higher systems collaboration." - Cate
Stillman

"In
the professional world, you have your separate parts of what you
can and cannot talk about, even though some of that other stuff
matters." - Amanda Hemmingsen

"What
are ways that I can bring a little bit more of the whole person
in?" - Amanda Hemmingsen

"For
me, I need the stillness. When I have the stillness, whatever the
next piece is will come out." - Amanda Hemmingsen

"Chaos is opportunity!" - Amanda
Hemmingsen

"How
do you create a much more resilient nervous system? You can be in
chaos and still be relaxed, and accessible, and available, and
open-hearted, and connective at the same time." - Cate
Stillman

BIO:

Having dived deep into her own core being, Amanda has learned to
build channels for her emotion energies to flow through her being
and express in the world. An empath working for government
bureaucracy, success has come from being the change.

About the Podcast

Yoga students, yoga teachers and wellness pros listen to innovative, awake living tips for vibrant health. Live the yoga lifestyle by updating your habits in line with Ayurveda. Combining ayurvedic philosophy, healthy foods, and behavioral science to uplevel your habits in line with your wellness potential.
Progressive and informed from ancient evolutionary wisdom, Cate Stillman conducts expert in depth interviews with experts in yoga, ayurveda, conscious entrepreneurship, eating raw, living foods and progressive family living. This podcast is packed with Cate's passionate workshops, conversations and uber practical yoga classes that makes an impact on how you feel, what you do, what you think and talk about and ultimately how you show up in the world! Join the Yogahealer community at yogahealer.com